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€60k up for grabs in ‘LiftOff’ competition
The third NDCR LaunchPad ‘LiftOff’ competition will be held on May 4, thirty investors will attend, while nine start-ups will compete for a €60,000 prize fund. Digital Times met with programme director Gary Leyden to learn more. This is the third LaunchPad programme. It’s been running for 18 months now and its focus is simple...
Irish price comparison firm gets attention
Profitero, a start-up based in the Media Cube Dublin, specialising in competitor monitoring, recently released an infographic that got the immediate attention of Asda, Tesco, Amazon, Argos and Dixons in the UK. The infographic compared 17,697 prices from online retailers that were collected across the UK. Profitero is now targeting the Irish online retail market....
Job opps for digital media graduates
Job opportunities in Ireland’s digital media industry will be highlighted at the launch of a Digital Hub competition for final-year college students. The launch of ‘Best in Show’ takes place tomorrow (www.thedigitalhubexhibit.com/bestinshow) and is organised each year by the Digital Hub Development Agency (DHDA). Final-year digital media and creative students are invited to submit samples...
Google Apps market is just one year old
Remember the days when Microsoft ruled the software world and Starbucks was just a small coffee house in Seattle? How far we have all come as we move towards Web 3.0, and it’s hard to imagine a web without great free software. This week (a year ago) Google launched the Google Apps Marketplace. This is...
Heystaks aims to lead new era of search
HeyStaks Technologies (www.heystaks.com), the NovaUCD social web-search start-up, has launched its initial products in the US market. The launch took place earlier this week at the annual DEMO Spring 2011 conference held in Palm Desert, California. The worldwide DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new product innovations. For 20 years DEMO has earned a...
World’s first cinematic 3D live opera for Dublin
This Wednesday (23rd February) will see a world first in Ireland, as ENO and Sky 3D collaborate to bring the first live opera in 3D to cinema screens. ENO’s new production of Lucrezia Borgia, directed by Mike Figgis, will be broadcast in Ireland from the Ormonde, Stillorgan as well as on Sky 3D and Sky...
Google’s artistic side
Love art, can’t travel? The Google Art project is a new site that allows you to ‘visit’ some of the greatest art museums on the planet and enjoy the art on display. Using Google’s Street View technology, you can now virtually tour 17 of the best museums worldwide including MoMA in New York, the Van...
A Line Phone in the sand
A line has been drawn in the sand of the smart phone sector. Can it be stepped over? The Line Phone is still a concept but what a way to imagine the future of smart phone technology. This Chinese concept phone recently won the 2010 Furong Cup ‘Digital Product and Service Design Competition’. While today’s...
Translating the app world
Irish firm Tethras Technologies has launched a service to help App developers publish their Apps in multiple languages. The $4.4 billion global App industry is set to surge with the introduction of tablets and the proliferation in smart phones. According to Distimo, an App store analytics company, Apple alone had more than 350,000 downloads of...
Easy street MAPS
Mediastreet.ie, “The online version of the popular MAPS directory” is up and running. Cormac McAlinden, managing director, Media Street says the site is a live version of the printed MAPS directory which is on the go now for 23 years. Design and build is by digital agency ICan. The site allows media-related companies and professionals to...
Start your digital business in two days
There are many events for people interested in the digital economy. However, there are very few events that start with ideas and end with real, viable, digital businesses. The Dublin Startup Weekend describes itself as “an intense 54 hour event that focuses on building a web or mobile app that could form the basis of...
